Monday, November 20, 2017

We at ~thumbapps~ don't just make portable version of any freeware or free & open source software/FOSS. There are usually some criteria to start a portable work:

It's not available at PortableApps.com/PA.c.

It's available at PA.c, but not as full-standalone-offline package—but online installer which would requires Internet connection. Most people don't have that kind of easy and relatively cheap access to Internet—especially in most of developing and usually corrupt... :) countries around the world. These people—including us—prefer to download anything via resumeable and accelerated downloader like FDM/Free Download Manager or uTorrent, for example. Online installer usually just way too slow and unresumeable :(—yes, Internet connection in our countries sometimes just disconnected for no apparent reasons.

It's available at PA.c, but we think we can add some value to our version, for example our Opera portable browser—stable, beta, and developer editions—can be updated to the next build from within the portable app.

The publisher provides portable version, but some features missing. Like for example Bandizip portable, the official version only in 32-bit and the context menu—which is essential for most users—is disabled.

The publisher provides portable version, but it's still unclean. It still writes some settings to the registry and/or Windows data folders.

But along the way, we found some official portable versions that are actually clean and we can ~just run it~ without much additional portablization. And this blog article is written for this purpose.
As of Nov, 2017 we have listed almost 70 clean official apps and almost 300 of portable apps release, so you have almost 400 portable applications available for you just from thumbapps.org!
Here's the list by category, we'll add more as our portablization journey continues, only if God wills!